Ad Campaigns
Exide Insurance stresses need of second income
NEW DELHI: A new digital campaign by Exide Life Insurance aims at projecting the need for a second income in a very simple way using two interesting situations.
The video-led #IncomeKaTopUp launched across social media relates to the Exide Life Income Advantage Plan.
The campaign shows two sets of friends planning a much longed for holiday, banking on their annual salary increment. And when that increment isn’t satisfactory, the videos show there is still a way to make that holiday happen with #IncomeKaTopUp without being subjected to ups and downs of annual increments.
The campaign in its first week has already generated a lot of interest from the core Target Audience. The videos have received over 1 million views across Facebook, Youtube and Twitter.
#IncomeKaTopUp helps these friends fulfill their holiday dream.
Income Ka Top Up – Photo Tour
Income Ka Top Up – Scuba Diving
Exiide Marketing and Direct channel director Mohit Goel said, “The message integrates perfectly with our mission of helping Indians prepare financially for a long and happy life. It is a universal fact that a little extra is always welcome. And this maxim holds true for income more than anything else. An extra or a regular second income is like the topping on ice cream – it makes everything better. Through this campaign we want our customers to appreciate the need to plan for their #IncomeKaTopUp so that they don’t compromise on experiencing the joys of life.”
NATIONAL: Amazon Ads has laid out a sharply tech-led vision for the advertising industry in 2026, arguing that artificial intelligence, streaming TV and creator partnerships will combine to turn brand building into a more precise, performance-driven business.
At the heart of the shift, the company says, is the fusion of AI with Amazon’s vast trove of shopping, browsing and streaming signals, allowing advertisers to move beyond blunt reach metrics to campaigns designed around real customer behaviour.
“The future of advertising is not about reaching more people, but the right people with messages that resonate,” said Amazon Ads India head and vice president Girish Prabhu. “By combining AI with deep customer insights, we help brands move from broadcasting campaigns to having meaningful conversations wherever audiences spend their time.”
One of the biggest changes, according to Amazon Ads, will be the collapse of the wall between media planning and creative development. Retail media, powered by first-party data, is increasingly shaping everything from brand discovery to final purchase, pushing marketers to design campaigns around audience insight rather than internal instinct.
AI is also moving from a support tool to a creative engine. Agentic AI, which automates and accelerates production, is expected to make high-quality creative accessible even to small businesses, compressing weeks of work into hours and giving challengers the ability to compete with larger brands on speed and scale.
Behind the scenes, AI-driven analytics will take on a bigger role in campaign optimisation, identifying patterns, spotting opportunities and recommending actions that would previously have required teams of analysts.
Streaming TV is another big battleground. With India’s video streaming audience now above 600 million and connected TV users at 129.2 million in 2025, advertisers are set to treat streaming not just as a branding channel but as a performance engine, measured increasingly by sales, sign-ups and bookings rather than just reach.
Finally, Amazon Ads sees creators and contextual advertising reshaping how brands tell stories. Creators will act less like influencers and more like long-term partners, while scene-aware ads on streaming platforms will allow brands to insert hyper-relevant offers into the flow of what viewers are watching.
Taken together, Amazon Ads argues, these shifts mark a move towards advertising that is both more human and more measurable, where AI handles the complexity, and creativity does the persuading.
